Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon have been fixtures in the rom-com genre since the early 2000s, endearing themselves to audiences around the world with mega-hits like Just Married and Legally Blonde. Astoundingly, despite bringing to life some of the most memorable characters in the genre, Kutcher and Witherspoon had never teamed up until 2022, when they both landed leading roles in the Netflix rom-com Your Place or Mine, which premiered on February 10.
However, rather than herald Kutcher and Witherspoon’s return to the genre that all but made their careers, the film’s red-carpet premiere wound up evoking interest in an unexpected subject; the duo’s relationship. We take a look at Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon’s relationship, and why it’s evoked such fascination from fans in recent times.
8 Were Reese Witherspoon And Ashton Kutcher Friends Before Your Place Or Mine?
Despite more or less running in the same circles, Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher had not formed a real-life friendship until they were required to portray longstanding besties in the Netflix film, Your Place or Mine.
The twosome even had to exchange videos to establish some familiarity before filming. "I was worried because we were supposed to play best friends [in the movie],” Witherspoon told People in a recent interview, “so we started sending videos to each other, like 30 seconds long."
7 How Did Reese Witherspoon Feel About Working With Ashton Kutcher?
While Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon’s real-life friendship is certainly quite new, Witherspoon and Kutcher’s wife, Mila Kunis, have been friends for quite a while. Witherspoon, therefore, found working with Kunis’ significant other incredibly exciting.
“It’s just fun because when you know a girlfriend so much, it was just fun to get to know her significant other because I’ve loved her for so long,” Witherspoon admitted during a recent appearance on the Today show. “[Ashton] is so professional. He’s the funniest guy. I mean, such a goofball. We had so much fun.”
6 How Did Ashton Kutcher Feel About Working With Reese Witherspoon?
Though he’d strayed from the rom-com genre to focus on more dramatic roles, Ashton Kutcher seemed unable to resist raving about his experience filming Your Place or Mine in a recent interview with Variety.
“Honestly, I think I had more fun shooting this movie than I ever had,” he said. “It was genuinely a choice. I didn’t need to do it. I didn’t have to do it. It wasn’t like a career-building block. It was like, ‘I want to do this.’”
As for working with Witherspoon, the Two and a Half Men alum gushed, “I got to be in scenes across from a genuine movie star. She’s such a movie star. It was so wonderful and fun and funny and light. There was never a dark day. There was never a day that everything went wrong. I got spoiled.”
5 Ashton Kutcher And Reese Witherspoon Bonded While Filming Your Place Or Mine
Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher have dominated the rom-com genre for most of their careers, both gifted with disarming good looks and charming personalities. It, therefore, came as no surprise when the twosome discovered that they shared multiple interests while filming Your Place or Mine.
"We have so much in common," Kutcher revealed to People. "We both like football, we're both really curious people that like understanding things, and we're very much family people."
4 Reese Witherspoon And Ashton Kutcher Have A Mutual Love For Nostalgia
Apart from their shared hobbies, Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher also discovered that they share a love for nostalgia. "I'm the yearbook girl on set," Witherspoon revealed to People. "Like, 'Everybody, get together! We need to remember this moment.'"
Witherspoon’s sentimentality is perfectly matched my Kutcher’s, who astoundingly still retains most of his wardrobe from That '70s Show. "I save a bunch of stuff,” he admitted to People. “My wife is always trying to purge. I'm like, 'No, that's meaningful! It was the first love letter I ever got when I was 12!'"
3 Ashton Kutcher And Reese Witherspoon Recently Went Viral For Their Awkward Red Carpet Poses
Despite forming a rather potent bond while portraying best friends turned lovers Debbie Dunn and Peter Coleman, Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher just couldn’t act natural while attending Your Place or Mine’s red carpet premiere. The twosome’s demeanor was so awkward that their red carpet photos had become viral memes within hours of the premiere.
The public skewering became so intense that Mila Kunis emailed the duo, pointing out their lack of chemistry on the red carpet. “She even emailed us last night,” Witherspoon told Today of Kunis. “She goes, ‘You guys look so awkward on the red carpet together.'”
2 Ashton Kutcher Really Wanted To Avoid Rumors Of An Affair With Reese Witherspoon
Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon display unqualified on-screen chemistry in Your Place or Mine, navigating the romantic and comedic aspects of the film with remarkable ease. Fans were, therefore, perplexed by the pair’s utter lack of chemistry on the red carpet. As it turns out, Ashton Kutcher’s awkward demeanor was part of a rather poorly orchestrated attempt to avoid rumors of an affair with Reese Witherspoon.
“Here’s the thing: if I put my arm around her, and was like all friendly with her, I’d be having an affair with her. Like, the rumor would be that I’m having an affair with her,” Kutcher admitted during an episode of the Chicks in the Office podcast. “If I stand next to her and put my hands in my pockets, so there’s no chance that that could be the rumor, then the rumor is we don’t like each other.”
1 Ashton Kutcher Also Attributed His Awkward Red Carpet Poses To Being Hard Of Hearing
Apart from trying to avoid misconceptions about the nature of his real-life relationship with Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher also attributed his red carpet awkwardness to his vasculitis diagnosis, which rendered him partially deaf in one ear.
“I don’t know who’s calling my name, but I know there’s a lot of people yelling, ‘Reese! Ashton! Over here!’” he told the Chicks in the Office podcast. “If you’re gonna tell me, in that entire 20-minute period, at one point you’re not gonna have an awkward face on, then you’re better than I am, and I’m cool with that.”
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